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EFF wants to remove Trollip because he’s white

 

FILE PICTURE: Speaker Jonathan Lawack places the mayoral chain around Athol Trollip’s neck to symbolise his election as mayor.

According to this article written on March 4th, 2018 by Nico Gous, it appears the head of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Julius Malema, is pushing for the removal of Athol Trollip as mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro effective April 6th of this year because he is white. At one of Malena’s speaking events in Johannesburg, he mentioned that they do not care for white feelings. He further goes on to justify his statement by saying that it is not that they, referring to himself and his following, hate white people, they just love black people.

This situation created an issue that was in turn debated in the National Assembly in Parliament after the ANC decided to expropriate land without compensation at their 54th Congress in December. Due to the DA’s refusal to back the motion of the EEF to amend section 25 of the constitution, which deals with property, Malema declared that the DA was being a typical bully to the EFF. Malema does not want any political party to claim ownership of the metros where the DA and the EFF are in coalition due to the fact that neither party had won with the majority in these metros.

 

Citation:

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-04-eff-wants-to-remove-trollip-because-hes-white/

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